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An Economic Evaluation Of Manufacturing In The U. A. E. With Special Reference To The Cement Industry, Shaykhah Saif Al-Shamsi

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Price Determination In A Competitive Industry With Costly Information And A Production Lag, Reuven Glick, Clas Wihlborg

Business Faculty Articles and Research

We analyze the role of information for price and output adjustment when competitive firms with rational expectations cannot directly distinguish between industrywide and firm-specific cost disturbances. Firms may become informed about industrywide cost conditions by acquiring information at a cost. The sensitivity of price and output to cost disturbances decreases as more firms choose to purchase information. The equilibrium industry share of informed firms increases as the cost of information falls and total cost variability increases. The equilibrium share of informed firms is largest when there is a comparable degree of variability in both industrywide and firm-specific costs.

Crises - Current, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This folder includes:
Handwritten note cards titled:

• Current Crisis: Bibliography (1973–1976), listing articles by Boddy and Crotty, Howard Sherman, Tobolowici, and Joseph Morris on wage-push, inflation, unemployment, monopoly capital, stagflation, and deficit spending from Monthly Review and other journals
• Howard Sherman, “Monopoly Power & Stagflation” (Journal of Economic Issues, XI(2), June 1977, pp. 269–284; 7/77), discussing profit squeeze, raw materials costs, restricted demand, and evidence against high wages causing inflation during contractions, with monopoly vs. competitive sector price behavior data (1929–1938; 1949–1975)
• Howard Sherman (continued, 3/4), noting monopolistic sectors show greater stability of profit rates over the …

A Comparison Of Collective Bargaining Issues Within The North Jersey Construction Industry, Edward G. Keane

Theses

This study was conducted in order to explore the recent developments within the Construction Industry Collective Bargaining process which have become evident in the southern, western, and the southwestern states.

Through a comparison of the current developments in the North Jersey area with those in the South and West, it will be suggested that the North Jersey Construction Industry will soon be dominated by Open Shop Contractors. It will be demonstrated that the primary reasons for this shift from union labor to non-union labor is due to the high overhead of union labor created by union fringe benefit funds, and …

The Involvement Of Labor Unions In Policies Of Worker Safety And Health, Kenneth J. Dzierzawiec

Theses

American workers are exposed to many seen and unseen hazards in their working environment. As the potential hazards in the workplace became more complicated, so too did the analysis of these hazards, as well as the means of endeavoring to protect a workers safety and health.

In the period between the 1920's and the 1960's the major thrust of Union demands were in the areas of economic gain. Although there was concern for worker welfare.

The period of the late 1960's through the early 1970's brought with it a new outlook on industrial practices as compared with worker welfare and …

Recruiting Techniques To Detect Truth And Personality, Franklin Keith Howard

Theses

Organizations today increasingly rely upon new measures of detecting employee honesty. Such approachs including lie detectors, handwriting analysis, voice stress tests, have their supporters and detractors.

This thesis will specifically concentrate upon the phenomenon of lie detectors...its origin, application and evaluation.

This thesis covers reasons why employers use these techniques, controversial issues centered around their use, legal implications, and their outlook in the employment setting.

Pricing And Profits: Empirical, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Clifton, J. A. (1983). Administered prices in the context of capitalist development. Contributions to political economy, 2, 23–38. Oxford University Press.
• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). [Handwritten marginal annotation: query whether to add to price rigidity section of chapter 9, or to chapter 8]. Unpublished manuscript annotation. Shaikh, A., PhD.
• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). [Handwritten marginal annotation: base price equals normal cost plus attainable profit margin]. Unpublished manuscript annotation. Shaikh, A., PhD.
• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). [Handwritten marginal annotation: base price used to calculate standard return at different volumes]. Unpublished manuscript annotation. Shaikh, A., PhD.
• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). [Handwritten marginal annotation: …

Pricing And Profits Empitical, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Folder Cover Label Shaikh, A. (1983). Pricing & profit empirical. Department of Economics, New School for Social Research.This item is a label on a cream folder. It organizes research materials examining corporate pricing systems and business profits.
• Published Journal Article with Handwritten Comment Clifton, J. A. (1983). Administered prices in the context of capitalist development. Contributions to Political Economy, 2. Academic Press. This item is a published academic paper about corporate pricing. Dr. Anwar Shaikh added a handwritten note at the top asking where to place the material in his textbook chapters.

I-O Tables And Price Value Deviation, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Folder cover labeled I-O tables and price/value deviations.
• Excerpts from Jacoby, N. H. (1977). Obscene corporate profits: The myth of exploitation. [Publisher not identified]; and Doran, C. F. (1977). Myth, oil, and politics: Introduction to the political economy of petroleum. [Publisher not identified].
• Shaikh, A. (1983, September 8). Petroleum refining, VA [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.
• Ochoa, E. (1983, October 27). New oil stocks, but not average profit of oil extraction and refining [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.
• Shaikh, A. (1983, November 29). Untitled calculations [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.
• Shaikh, A. (1983, September 8). Petroleum refining …

Vertical Linkages And Multinational Enterprises In Developing Countries, Linda Y. C. Lim, Eng Fong Pang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Many studies have concluded that multinational firms do not create significant technical and other vertical linkages in developing host countries. This case study of three multinational firms in the export-oriented electronics industry in Singapore shows that under certain conditions multinational firms can lead in creating local vertical linkages. It suggests that restrictive government policies to increase local purchases may not be necessary, effective or desirable in promoting local linkages by export-oriented multinational firms that respond primarily to international market conditions. The Singapore experience poinst to the importance of a healthy investment climate and rapid economic growth in encouraging multinational firms …

Demand Analysis Of Egyptian Cotton, 1963-1977, Mervat Doss Adly Doss

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Economic Evaluation Of Mechanizing Land Preparation, Raouf Fareed Khouzam

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Competition: Sweezy - Kalecki - Steindl, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This folder includes:
Handwritten note cards titled:

• Note on Steindl (5/23/78)
• Sweezy on Monopoly & Competition
• The Basis of Kalecki’s Theory
• Oligopolistic & Competitive Sectors (6/8/77)
• Steindl (with economic formulas and graphs)

Oligopolies Monopolies And Profit Rates, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Concentration and industry profit rates [Handwritten charts by Anwar Shaikh, PhD, with graphs on Bain (1951) and Stigler (1963)]. Shaikh, A. (1979, May). Unpublished manuscript.

• Concentration and industry profit rates [Handwritten charts by Anwar Shaikh, PhD, with graphs on Brozen (1971), Mann, and Demsetz (1973)]. Shaikh, A. (1979, August). Unpublished manuscript.

• Wholesale prices in oligopolistic and competitive industries, 1965–1973 [Graph citing Eichner, A. S. (1976)]. Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Unpublished manuscript.

Industrial Deconcentration And Legal Feasibility: The Efficiencies Defense, Joseph F. Brodley

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The Effectiveness Of Induced Location Of Manufacturing Industry As A Means Of Fostering Sustained Economic Growth In Less Developed Regions Of Oregon, Leland F. Smith

Dissertations and Theses

The subject of this thesis was chosen from both a professional and an academic interest in the economic development of Oregon. Prompted by proposals made to the Oregon Legislature to initiate various forms of industrial subsidy programs to disperse economic growth and population away from congested areas, this research effort seeks to provide an evaluative analysis of the effectiveness of subsidy techniques in influencing industrial location and stimulating a sustained growth process in less developed areas.

Research was undertaken in two primary subjects: 1) theory of regional economic development and the effects of subsidies on the growth process; and 2) …

An Evaluation Of Tin Can Recycling In Kalamazoo, Michigan, Rose Ann Husted

Masters Theses

An Overview of Tin Can Recycling

Recycling Rationale

The economic system of the United States is based on taking natural resources, converting them into consumer products by industrial processes, and selling these products to consumers. It is assumed that consumers will use up all of these products. But this is not the case. The consumer uses only parts of these goods and discards the unwanted remains.

Marxist Theories On Credit And Capital, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This folder includes:
Handwritten note cards titled:

• Concentration & Centralization
• Monopoly, Competition (May 1977)
• Concentration & Rates of Profit (May 20, 1977)
• Monopoly, Competition (May 1977)
• Oligopoly & Question of Reinvestment (June 1977)
• Competition & Oligopoly (June 1977)
• Capital with Higher Rates of Profit and Oligopoly Capital Growth
• Monopoly & Price (on mass of profit and supply adjustment)
• Monopoly & Price (on price rises and surplus profit)
• On Monopoly (July 1983)
• Monopoly & State Interference (February 1982)
• Bibliography on Concentration (May 14)
• Monopoly Price (with excerpt from Marx’s Capital, Vol. III)
• Value & Monopoly (with excerpt from Bailey)
• Monopoly …

External Economies And Competitive Equilibrium, George A. Hay, John J. Mcgowan

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

In an article published in 1955, Murray Kemp analyzed the case for interference with the competitive allocation of resources when external economies of production are present. In the specific model we are interested in—where the costs of any one producer's operations are affected by the total output of all producers of the same product—Kemp attempted to show that where entry into the industry is closed (although the industry is otherwise perfectly competitive), "there can always be found a subsidy, either on the product or on a particular factor, which will be a sufficient incentive to firms to produce an …

A Note On The Stigler-Kindahl Study Of Industrial Prices, George A. Hay

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Production, Price, And Inventory Theory, George A. Hay

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This paper is an attempt to derive empirically testable hypotheses regarding the principal determinants of firms' decisions on production, price, and finished goods inventory. The general approach to the problem is that many of the same factors which affect the optimal value for one variable will also influence decisions on the other two, and that a "proper" model must take into account the interdependence of these variables and the simultaneous nature of the decisions involving them. This is in contrast to literature on the theory of inventories (see Paul Darling and Michael Lovell) in which the firm is assumed to …

Agricultural Development In East Central Florida, East Central Florida Regional Planning Council Staff

City and Regional Planning -- Florida

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT is one of fourteen reports in the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council's 1965 Research Series. Each report covers a separate aspect of the Region's development and includes the author's projections and recommendations. Thus the fourteen reports constitute a unified, detailed picture of the Region that will serve as a base for both general and special studies over the years to come. As soon as the studies were completed, the Council began the task of evaluating and coordinating the research material in order to evolve a long-range plan for sound development in the Region. The Council's policies and …

Economic Integration And Economic Development In Central America, Angel David Sandoval

Economics ETDs

The thesis of this paper is that economic integration can lead Central America to much higher levels of living for her people, but this will be accomplished only if the economic structure of the region is greatly modified. Correcting the structural faults of the Central American economics will also require economic integration. Such structural weaknesses as inadequate medical personal care, limited provision for education of the masses, out-moded fiscal systems, insufficient and inefficient transportation systems, lethargic public administration, the great gap between the incomes of upper classes and the masses of the people, and the concentration of land ownership in …

Changing Length Of The Work Week Within The Clearing Industrial District Of Chicago, Illinois, Robert Shust

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Descriptive Analysis Of The Aims And Methods Of The Young Christian Students Movement As An Agency Of Social Control Over High School Students, Lewis Theodore Drahmann

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Conflict Of Federal And State Jurisdiction Under The National Labor Relations Act As Amended, John Joseph Devine

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Critical Analysis Of The "Right-To-Work" Laws, Paul Francis Crevoiserat

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Anti-Foreignism In The Chinese Communist Appeal, John E. Kai-Cheng Fu

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Developments In Pre-Retirement Programs Since 1950, Thomas Castronovo

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Development Of The Printing And Crafts Union No. 415, Katherine Jane Daly

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.